With hundreds of millions of users already today, virtual worlds will become an important factor in tomorrow's media landscape. In a virtual world, users are represented by s...
In this paper, we consider the problem of identifying and segmenting topically cohesive regions in the URL tree of a large website. Each page of the website is assumed to have a t...
While systems supporting communities of practice in work organizations have been shown to be desirable many, if not all, are decoupled from daily work practices and tools. This hi...
Named entities play an important role in Information Extraction. They represent unitary namable information within text. In this work, we focus on groups of named entities of the s...
Databases of text and text-annotated data constitute a significant fraction of the information available in electronic form. Searching and browsing are the typical ways that users...
Wisam Dakka, Panagiotis G. Ipeirotis, Kenneth R. W...